Button loop



March 31, 1931. J. H. DOMKEE BUTTON LOOP Filed Feb. 26, 1930 TEIFK INVE cu-IN H DEIMKEE ATT I Patented Mar. 31, 1931 UNITED STATES CONNECTICUT PATENT OFFICE 7 JOHN H. DOMKEE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, .A SSIGNOR TO THE WIRE NOVELTY V MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION 01 i BUTTON Loor Application filed February 2e, 1930. Serial No; 431,496.!

This invention relates to improvement in button loops adapted for use on garment straps, the loop being specially adapted t O be suspended at the end of a strap in reach- 5 ness to be clipped over a button the shank of which may be urged therefrom into a smaller retaining loop member from which it cannot be unintentionally withdrawn, and the objects of the invention are to provide a button loop of which one wire end rigidly carries a button-retaining member and the other wire end is movably suspended within the member; and to provide the free extremity of the suspended member with an arcuate formation adapted to retainingly engage a seated button-shank. With these and other objects in view as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular form herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawing but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

The following is the description of an embodiment of the invention the character of which may be best understood by reference to one illustrative device illustrated by the accompanying drawing in which the Figure 1 is an upright elevation of the normal desubstantially similar; the Figure 2 is a group of an upright elevation of the wire structure of the device and a detached button-retaining member in the process of construction; the Figure 3 being an upright elevation of an expanded device; the Figure 4 is an upright elevation of the device in its normal position after the passage of the shank within its seat.

Referring more particularly to the drawing in which similar numbers refer to similar parts, the device comprises a piece of resilient wire of which a middle portion is bent to form the suspension loop 1, the other wire portions providing the spring arms 2 and 3 cooperating to form the buttonreceiving loop 4 having the normally contracted throat portion 5, the wire end portion 6 forming a substantial portion of a loop 7 axially asso- 50 ciated with the loop 4, the other wire end vice of which a reversed elevation would be 7 tions are substantially similar.

portion 8 being suspended within the loop 7 i and having the arcuate extremity 9 as illustrated by the Figure 2. The button retaining member 10 is madeof sheet metal and is first channel formed and then formed into U-shape approximately as illustrated by the Figure 2 and thereby providing the shankseat 11. The member 1'0'is mounted upon the wire end portion 6, a marginal portion of the member 10 being snugly formed onto the bent wire end portion 6, as at '12, thereby rigidly assembling the two parts of the device, the free wire end portion 8 normally resting within the member 10 with its arcuate extremity 9 lying adjacent theseat 11 in the path of the button-shank S as illustrated by the Figure 1, but being movable-in the plane of the loop against the tension of the spring arm 3 a limited distance'within the member 10 upon the expansion of the throat portion '5, as illustrated by the Figure 3, it being ap parent that, upon the passage of the shank S towithin the seat 11, the arcuate extremity 9 is adapted, by reason of the resiliency of the arm 3, to normally press against the seated shank S in such amanner as to retain theshank S against movement out of the seat 11. The retaining engagement of the arcuate extremity 9 against the shank S may be made so efficient that, if desired, the normal contraction ofthe throat portion 5 might be dispensed with as a means for retaining the'shank S within the seat 11 of the member 10.

The button loop being reversible is adapt- :1

ed to be mounted upon-a strap to prominent- 1y display the front elevation thereof as illustrated or an opposite elevation not illustrated by reason of the fact that both eleva- I claim 1. A reversible button loop comprising a piece of resilient wire a middle portion of which is bent to form a suspension loop, and

the remaining wire portions cooperating to form. a button-receiving loop, one of the wire end portions forming a substantial portion of a loop axially associated with the button-receiving loop, and a button-retaining member enclosing and rigidly secured to L the wire'end portion and providing a seat for the shank of a button the other Wire end portion being freely suspended Within the member for relative movement therein in the plane of the loop, the free Wire end portion having an arcuate terminal normally lying in the path of a bottom shank moving into said seat and laterally engaging and retaining a seated shank. y

A rever'sible button loop-compri ing a piece of resilient Wire of which a middle portion is bent to form a suspension loop, and

the remaining wire portions cooperating to form a button-receiving loop having a normally contracted throat portion, one of the wire end portions forming a substantial portion of a loop axially associated with a button-receiving loop, and a button-retaining member enclosing and rigidly secured to said wire end portion and providing a seatfor the shank of a button, the other Wire end portion being freely suspended Within the member for relative movement in the plane of-the loop, the free wire end portion having an arcuate terminal normally lying in the path of a button-shank moving into said seat, the terminal laterally engaging a seated i shankth'ereby held against unseating.

3. A reversible button loop comprising-a pieceof resilient Wire a middle portion of which is bent to form a suspension loop, and the remaining Wireportions cooperating to form a button-receiving loop, one of the wire end portions forming a substantial portion of a loop axially associated With the buttonreceiving loop, and a button-retaining'member rigidly secured to the Wire end portion and providing a seat for the shank of a button the other wire end portion being freely suspended and having an arcuate terminal norm-ally lying in the path of a button 'shank moving into said seat, the terminal lateral- 1y engaging a seated shank thereby held against unseating l I a "JOHN H. DOMKEE. 

